JAGADESE J. VITTAL

Office: Department of Chemistry

National University of Singapore

SINGAPORE 117543

Ph: (65) 6516-2975; FAX: (65) 6779-1691

E-mail: chmjjv@nus.edu.sg

ORCID: 8302-0733 Researcherid: B-2541-2010

NUS Website: http://www.chemistry.nus.edu.sg/people/academic_staff/jjvittal.htm

Home: 124 Jurong East St. 13, #10-01, Ivory Heights, SINGAPORE, 600124

Ph: (65) 6646-3015. Hand Phone: (65) 83163275

Education

PhD (1982) - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

MSc (1977) - Madurai University, India

BSc (1975) – University of Madras, India

Experience

Professor, Department of Chemistry, NUS, Singapore, (2009-), Associate Professor (1998-

2008). Senior Lecturer, (1997 – 1998).

A faculty member, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering, (2012 - )

Director, Chemical, Molecular and Materials Analysis Center (CMMAC), NUS (2011 -2015)

Adjunct Professor, School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia (2018-)

Visiting Lecturer, Chemistry Promotion Center, Ministry of Science & Technology, Taiwan

(2017)

Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2016)

Honorary Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2015)

Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (2013)

Adjunct researcher, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (2013 - 2016)

WCU (World Class University) Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, Gyeongsang

National University, Jinju 660-701, South Korea, (2009 – 2013)

Assistant Dean (Graduate Studies, Research and Infrastructure & Space), Faculty of Science,

NUS, Singapore (2007-2010)

Manager, X-Ray Structure Facility, Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario,

LONDON, Canada, (1989 – 1997)

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore, (1987 – 1989)

Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario LONDON,

Canada, (1982 – 1987)

Lecturer in Chemistry, Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Tamil Nadu, India, (1977 – 1978)

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Awards and Honours

o Outstanding Chemist Award, Department of Chemistry, NUS, 2014

o Highlighted in Angewandte Author Profile, 2014

o CRISP Award, Faculty of Science, NUS 2013/14

o Outstanding Researcher Award, NUS, 2011

o Erudite Scholar-in-Residence, Kerala State Higher Education Council, India, 2011

o Interview in thescepticalchymist, The Nature Chemistry Blog in November 03, 2011

o Finalist, President's Science Award, Singapore, 2009

o Outstanding Scientist Award, Faculty of Science, NUS, 2007

o ISCAS Bronze Medal, Indian Association of Solid State Chemists and Allied Scientists, India

for contributions in the field of Solid State Chemistry, 2001

o Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Grant Award for International Authors, 2002 & 2008

o DAAD-NUS Exchange Visit Fellowship to Göttingen, Germany, 2002

o First recipient of the "Kharkanawala Memorial Award", Indian Thermal Analysis Society,

India, 1980

Professional Affiliations

o Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, from 2014

o Fellow, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry, from 2003 & Member, from 1998

o Member, American Chemical Society, from 1997

o Member, Materials Research Society (Singapore), 2003-2014

o Life member, Indian Thermal Analysis Society, from 1979

o Life member, Indian Association of Solid State Chemists and Allied Scientists, from 2001

o Elected member of International Centre for Diffraction Data, 2007-2009

Editorial Board

o Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, 2016

o Editorial Advisory Board Member, Crystal Growth & Design, from 2016

o Associate Editor, Journal of Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic and Nano-

Metal Compounds, 2006

o Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Green Nanotechnology: Physics

& Chemistry, from 2009

o Member, International Editorial Board of Main Group Metal Chemistry 2003-2016

o Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Chemistry, from 2012

o Member, Editorial Board, COSMOS, from 2010

o Topic Editor, Crystal Growth & Design, 2012-2015

o Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Current Inorganic Chemistry, from 2011-2015

o Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Current Chemical Biology, 2007 – 2009

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Books

o G.R. Desiraju, J.J. Vittal & A. Ramanan, Crystal Engineering – A Textbook, World Scientific,

2011

o E.R.T. Tiekink, J.J. Vittal & M.J. Zoworotko (Book Editors), Organic Crystal Engineering -

Frontiers in Crystal Engineering, Wiley, 2010

o E.R.T. Tiekink & J.J. Vittal, Frontiers in Crystal Engineering, Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006

Special Issues of Journals

o S.R. Batten, B. Chen & J.J. Vittal, Special Issue on Coordination Polymers/MOFs: Structures,

Properties and Applications, ChemPlusChem, 81(8) (2016) 669-670

o J.J. Vittal & J. Ellena, “Crystal Growth & Design celebrates the International Year of

Crystallography 2014”, Cryst. Growth & Des., 15(1) (2015) 2-4

o J.J. Vittal & S.R. Batten, “2014 International year of crystallography celebration: Asia-

Pacific,” CrystEngComm, 16 (28) (2014) 6276

o Edited a special Issue on the Chemistry of Nanomaterials with X. Liu, COSMOS, 6(2)

December 2010

o Edited a special issue on Coordination Polymers with J.N. Moorthy, J. Molecular Structure,

796, 30 August 2006

Major Research Interests

Supramolecular Chemistry and Crystal Engineering: Solid-state reactivity and supramolecular

transformations, photochemistry of coordination complexes, coordination polymers and MOFs,

biomimetic studies, water clusters, solid state properties.

Advanced Inorganic Materials: Single molecular precursor routes to various metal-chalcogenide

and -oxide bulk materials, films and nanocrystals – Battery and other energy and gas storage

materials.

Research Output

About 500 international publications, reviews and chapters, about 250 conference papers and

numerous invited, keynote and plenary presentations. Several papers have been highlighted and

decorated the cover pages, selected as hot papers and top 10 most accessed by web. Web of Science:

~17,300 citations and h-index, 65. Google Scholar: ~20,200 citations and h-index, 70.

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Selected 5 of Publications

1. H.S. Quah, W. Chen, M. K. Schreyer, H. Yang, M.W. Wong, J.J. Vittal, “Multiphoton

Harvesting Metal Organic Frameworks” Nat. Commun., 6 (2015) 7954

2. I.-H. Park, R. Medishetty, H.-H. Lee, C. E. Mulijanto, H. S. Quah, S. S. Lee, J.J. Vittal, “Formation of a Syndiotactic Organic Polymer inside a MOF via [2+2] Photo-Polymerization

Reaction” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(25) (2015) 7313

3. R. Medishetty, A. Husain, Z. Bai, T. Runčevski, R. Dinnebier, P. Naumov, J. J. Vittal, “Popping Single Crystals Under UV Light: The First Example of a Photosalient Effect Triggered by a

[2+2] Cycloaddition Reaction” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53(23) (2014) 5907-5911 (Hot paper and

Coverpage)

4. M. Nagarathinam, K.Saravanan, J.H. Phua, M. V. Reddy, B. V. R. Chowdari and J. J. Vittal, “Redox Active Hybrid Metal Centered Oxalato Phosphate Open Framework 4 V Cathode Materials

for Lithium Ion Batteries” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51 (2012) 5866

5. M.T. Ng, C.B. Boothroyd and J.J. Vittal, ‘One-pot synthesis of new phase AgInSe2 nanorods.’

J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 128 (2006) 7118.

Highlight and Impact on the Research

Angwandte Author Profile – Highlight the authors published more than 10 papers in recent years

in Angewandte Chemie Internatioanal Edition, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53(52) (2014) 14302

A. Cover page illustrations:

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B. Most accessed, Hot Articles, etc.:

1. Angewandte Chemie (2014, Issue No. 23, p. 5907) is a hot article. This was highlighted by

Faculty of Science, NUS, Chemistry World, Nature Middle East and 10 other websites.

2. Our article in Chemical Communications (2008, Issue No. 4. p. 438) was amongst the top ten

accessed on the web from the online version in January 2008

3. Coord. Chem. Rev. (2008, 252, 1027) review was one of the top 25 hottest articles in April-

June, 2008)

4. Coord. Chem. Rev. (2007, 251, 1781) article was one of the top 25 hottest articles in July-

September, 2007

5. According to Thomson’s ISI Web of Knowledge – Essential Science Indicators (August

2008), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 43, 2004, 5769 and Coord. Chem. Revs. 251, 2007, 1781are

‘highly cited papers’

6. One publication dealing with nano Ag2Se in Chemical Communications, 2005, 3820 was

considered as hot paper

7. Our paper on La2S3 thin films, in the Journal of Materials Chemistry, 16, 2006, 272 in

collaborationwith Prof. Loh Kian Ping was considered as hot paper by J. Materials. Chem.

8. The paper “A semiconducting material for saturable absorber," published in Applied Physics

Letters 90, 033106 (2007), has been selected for the January 29, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal

of Nanoscale Science & Technology and February 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast

Science. The Virtual Journals are published by the American Physical Society and the

American Institute of Physics in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers.

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9. Dalton Trans., 2004, (1), 113 was amongst the top ten accessed on the web from the online

version of Dalton Transactions for the month of December 2003

10. Two papers were published back-to-back (p. 438 & 441) in Chemical Communications (Issue

No. 4, 2008). Free access was given to these papers since they were considered to be

significant by the referees.

11. Four papers were published in Dalton Trans. (2001, issue no. 3, pages 309, 315, 322 & 329) in

a row, in which JJV was the co-author in the first two and corresponding author in the last two

C. Highlighted in other journals, magazines, Internet, etc.

12. The work on Ag2TeO3 has been highlighted in VerticalNews, a nanotechnology business

journal dated 2008-11-03.

13. The Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008 paper on water cluster has been referred in Wikipedia, the

free Encyclopedia in the Internet

14. The article on nano Ag2Se in Chemical Communications 2006 paper was highlighted in the

September, 2005 issue of MRS Web Bulletin in the Research/Researchers section

15. The same Chemical Communications 2006 paper on nano Ag2Se was highlighted in

Molecular Torch, an Internet webpage dedicated for nanotechnology on the nano Ag2Se work.

16. M.J. Zaworotko, "From dissymmetric molecules to chiral polymers: A new twist for

supramolecular synthesis?" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 37 (1998) 1211) highlighted our

publication Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 37 (1998) 1114.

17. D. Bradley in the web journal Catalyst, July 3, 1998 issue entitled "Molecular architecture:

designs on chemistry", highlighting our work in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 37 (1998) 1114.

18. Commentary - “Super supramolecular synthesis” by J.D. Ranford, J.J. Vittal and D. Wu,

Research Newsletter, Faculty of Science, Volume 2, No. 3, July 1998, pp. 1.

19. Commentary - From Sand to TV Screens an article about J.J. Vittal's work for Innovation, The

Magazine of Research & Technology, NUS, March 2001, pp.12.

20. Commentary - Supramolecule-based magnets - A supramolecular copper(II) complex with a

magnetic ordering temperature above 400K by J. Ding and J.J. Vittal, Research Newsletter,

Faculty of Science, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 11.

No of PhD Students Supervised – 23, currently supervising - 2

No of MSc Students Supervised - 10

No. of BSc Honours Students Supervised for their final year projects - 51

No of Research Assistants/Associates in the past and present - 27

No of Part-Time Student Assistants - 12

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High School, Junior College and Undergraduate Students Trained

1. Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science (UROPS) – ~30 students,

1999-2014.

2. Student Research Programme (SRP) – ~10 Students from Junior Colleges, since 1998

3. Science Mentorship Programme (SMP) – 4 students from Raffles Institution, 2001.

4. Science Mentorship Programme (SMP) – 2 students from Nayang Girls’ High School, 2004.

5. Special Programme in Science (SPS) – 3 students (with co-supervision of Chin Wee Chong),

2000.

6. Mentornet Programme, Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore – 13 students, 1997-1999.

Other Professional Activities (from 2001)

o International Panel Member of IYCr Crystal Growing Competition, 2014-2016

o Invited to nominate Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2014

o One of the Founding Board of Editors, Crystal Growth & Design Network by American

Chemical Society, from 2010

o Secretary-Treasurer, Asian Crystallographic Association, 2013-2016

o A council member representing Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand and Indonesia to

the International Union of Crystallography of the Executive Committee, 2014.

o Founder and Organising Committee member, Singapore National Crystal Growing Challenge.

Yearly 1997- 2000, & for every two years from 2002 – 2014. The 11th in this series will be

held in September 2014 and this is one of the most popular outreach activities of the

Department of Chemistry and the Faculty of Science. His contribution has been well

recognized at the international level. Now he is the advisor and a judge of this event.

o An International Committee Member, Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, from

2007-.

o JJ has been giving popular lecture on ‘How to be a successful researcher’ in Singapore, India

and S. Korea in the past 7 years. This is to motivate the students to get motivated to do

research and to cope up with failure, stress, timeline and pressure.

o JJ has been very active in promoting crystallographic education and research in Singapore and

abroad.

o Executive Committee Member, Materials Research Society (Singapore), 2006-07, 2010-2014

o Singapore representative to the Council of Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA). 1998

– 2006; 2010-till now

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o Published an article with Prof. K. Swamination on ‘Crystallography in Singapore’ for the

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Newsletter (on invitation by the President of

IUCr). This news letter reaches more than 10000 people all over the world. This has certainly

increased the profiles of Singapore, NUS, Faculty of Science and the Department of

Chemistry.

Cover page of the IUCr Newsletter, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2006. For article see pages 7-16

o One of the judges, Singapore Science and Engineering Fair conducted by Singapore Science

Centre, March 2005, 2008 & 2009

o One of the judges, Poster session of the 9th Youth Science Conference, Singapore Polytechnic,

August 2004

o One of the judges, “Proposal & Supervision of Scientific Research Project”, SNIC and

Department of Chemistry for teachers, March 2002

o One of the Judges, "Chemistry Communications Challenge", 2001

Conferences

o Local Chair, 16th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association, Singapore, 17-20,

December 2019.

o Member, International Advisory Body, 55th Annual Convention of Chemists and Inernational

Seminar 2018 of Indian Chemical Society, G.B. College, Naugachia, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India,

Dec. 28-30, 2018

o Member, International Program Committee, 15th Asian Crystallographic Association Meeting,

Aukland, New Zealand, December 2-5, 2018

o Member, International Advisory Board, International Symposium on Recent Advances on

Molecules and Materials (RA2M-2018) Kolkatha, India, August 2-3, 2018.

o Co-chair, International Program Committee, 14th Asian Crystallographic Association Meeting,

AsCA 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam, December, 2016

o Organizing member, Organic Solid State Chemistry, in PacifiChem 2015, December 15-20,

2015

o Member, International Program Committee, 13th Asian Crystallographic Association Meeting,

Kolkata, India, December 5-8, 2015

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o Member, Scientific Committee, 8th Singapore International Chemistry Conference, SICC-8,

Singapore, December 14-17, 2014

o Member, International Advisory Committee, 4th Inernational Conference – World Science

Congress, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, December 16-18, 2014

o Member, International Advisory Committee, Collaborative Conference on Crystal Growth,

Phuket, Thailand, November 4-7, 2014

o Chair, Celebrate International Year of Crystallography 2014 (IYCr2014) with

crystallographers in Singapore, NUS, Singapore, August 1, 2014

o Secretary General, 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC41),

Singapore, July 2014

o Member, Academic Advisory Committee, Pure and Applied Chemistry International

Conference (PACCON 2014), Khon Kaen, Thailand, from Jan 8- 10, 2014

o Co-Chair, International Program Committee, Asian Crystallographic Meeting (AsCA’13),

Hong Kong, December 7-10, 2013

o Member, Scientific Committee and chairman of the symposium, ‘Crystal Engineering of New

Materials, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, ICMAT-2013,

30 June - 6 July, 2013

o Co-organizer, 2nd China-India-Singapore Symposium on China-India-Singapore Symposium

on Crystal Engineering, November 19 – 23, 2012, in Guangzhou, China.

o Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, Mini-Symposium on NanoBio and Supramolecular

Materials, GNU, Jinju, Nov. 4, 2010

o Organizing Committee member, 1st International Collaborative and Coorperative Chemistry

Symposium, NUS, November 15-16, 2010

o Member, International Program Committee, Asian Crystallogrpahic Association Meeting,

AsCA’10, Busan, Korea, Oct. 31-Nov.3, 2010

o Organizer, First China-India-Singapore Symposium on Crystal Engineering, NUS, July 30-

August 2, 2010

o Organizer, NUS – University of Hyderabad Bilateral Chemistry Symposium, Singapore, Dec.

14-15, 2009

o Coordinator, Singapore-India Cooperative & Collaborative Chemistry Symposium (SInCCCS-

5), University of Hyderabad, India, February 20-21, 2009

o Co-chair in a Microsymposium ‘Design and applications of nanoscale materials’, XXI

International Union of Crystallography Congress, Osaka, Japan, 23-31 August 2008

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o Organizing Committee Member, 3rd MRS-S Conference on Advanced Materials, 2008, IMRE,

Singapore, February 25-27, 2008

o An international Committee Member, First Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry

(ACCC-1), Okazaki, Japan, July 29 – August 2, 2007; ACCC-2, Beijing, 2009 abd ACCC-3,

New Delhi, Oct. 17-21, 2011

o Session Chair, Molecular & Nanoscale Metal Clusters Symposium, NUS, Singapore, 10 May,

2007

o A scientific committee member and chairman of the symposium, ‘New routes to inorganic

materials, films and nanocrystals’ for the International Conference on Materials for Advanced

Technologies, ICMAT-2007, 1-6 July, 2007

o International Advisory Committee member International Conference on Nano-Materials for

Electronics, Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology, Pune, India, November 27-29,

2006

o Session Chair, Singapore-India Cooperative & Collaborative Chemistry Symposium

(SInCCCS-4), NUS, Singapore, February 20-21, 2006

o A member of the Scientific Program Committee, Singapore International Chemical

Conference-4. Frontiers in Chemical Design and Syntheses (SICC-4), Singapore, December

8-10, 2005

o Coordinator, Singapore-India Cooperative & Collaborative Chemistry Symposium (SInCCCS-

3), IIT Kanpur, India, December 16-18, 2004

o Program Committee Member, Asian Crystallographic Association meeting (AsCA04), Hong

Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China, June 27-30, 2004

o A scientific committee member, International Conference on Materials for Advanced

Technologies (ICMAT 2003) and 7th International Union of Materials Research Society (ICA

2003), Singapore, December 7-12, 2003

o Chairman of the symposium, 'New Materials by Crystal Engineering Design' at ICMAT,

Singapore, December 7-12, 2003

o Coordinator, Singapore-India Cooperative & Collaborative Chemistry Symposium (SInCCCS-

2), IIT Bombay, India, November 7-8, 2003

o Organizer, Singapore-India Cooperative & Collaborative Chemistry Symposium (SInCCCS-

1), Singapore, December 3-4, 2002

o Member, Scientific Program Committee, Singapore International Chemical Conference-2.

Frontiers in Chemical Design and Syntheses, Singapore, December 18-20, 2001

o International Program Committee member, 3rd Conference of the Asian Crystallographic

Association conference, AsCA98, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October, 13-15, 1998

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Selected Invited Talks and Chairing Scientific Sessions

o Invited speaker, 15th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association,, Dec. 2-6, 2018,

Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 2-6, 2018

o Plenary speaker, 2nd Southeast Asia Conference On Crystal Engineering (SEACCE-2), Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia, August 6-8, 2018

o Keynote peaker, International Coordination Chemistry Conference (ICCC2018), Sendai, Japan,

July 30-August 4, 2018

o Invited Speaker, 2018 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, Toronto, July 20-

24, 2018

o Keynote Speaker, 11th Global Experts Meeting on Chemistry and Computational Catalysis,

Singapore, 18 -19 May, 2018

o Keynote speaker, 4th Japan-Taiwan-Singapore-Hong Kong Quadrilateral Symposium on

Coordination Chemistry, Hong Kong, December 10-12, 2017

o Invited Speaker, 43rd Congress on Science and Technology of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand,

October 17-19, 2017

o Invited Speaker, Crystallography and Society, a satellite meeting of IUCr 2017, Pune, August 29-

30, 2017

o Keynote speaker, XXIV Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of

Crystallography (IUCr2017), Hyderabad, India, August 21-28, 2017

o Keynote speaker, 6th Asian Coordination Chemistry Conference (ACCC6), Melbourne, Australia,

July 23-28, 2017

o Plenary speaker, 3rd Singapore Inorganic Chemistry Symposium (SICS 2017), Singapore, July 14,

2017

o Plenary speaker, 2nd World Chemistry Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 8-10, 2016

o Plenary speaker, The third Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario

and Quebec (CEMWOQ-3), Windsor, Canada, May 14-15, 2016

o Keynote speaker, the 30th Conference of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New

Zealand (SCANZ Crystal 30), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, March 29-April 1, 2016

o Keynote speaker, IUPAC-2015, Busan, Korea, August 9-14, 2015

o Keynote speaker, RSC International Symposium on Mechanochemistry, Hefei, China, 6-7

June, 2015

o Keynote speaker, 8th Singapore International Chemistry Conference, Singapore, Dec. 14-17,

2014

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o Invited speaker, 3rd China-India-Singapore Conference on Crystal Engineering, Bangalore,

India, Dec. 8-10, 2014

o Invited speaker, International Conference on Structural and Inorganic Chemistry, Pune, Dec.

4-5, 2014

o Invited speaker, International Conference on Structural Chemistry of Molecules and

Materials, Kolkata, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2014

o Invited Speaker, 23rd Congress and general Assbly of the International Union of

Crystallography, Montreal, Canada, August 5-12, 2014 (gave two invited talk which is very

very rare)

o Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference, Waterville, NH, USA, June 1-6, 2014

o Invited Speaker, 19th National Symposium & Workshop on Thermal Analysis (THERMANS-

2013), BARC, Mumbai, India, December19-23, 2013

o Invited Speaker, Asian Crystallographic Meeting (AsCA’13), Hong Kong, December 7-10,

2013

o Invited Speaker, Fourth International Collaborative and Cooperative Chemistry Symposium

(ICCCS-4), IIT- Kanpur, India Oct. 25-26, 2013

o Special Lectures, Department of Chemistry, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, S. Korea,

May 29 and February 28, 2013

o Guest Lecture, Graduate School Award Celebrations, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju,

S. Korea, February, 25, 2013.

o Invited Speaker, Chemistry: Synthesis, Structure & Dynamics – A Conference on Crystal

Engineering, Coorg, India, December 11-14, 2012

o Invited Speaker, AsCA 12/Crystal 28 and Bragg Centennial Symposium, Adelaide, Australia,

December 2-6, 2012

o Invited Speaker, 4th Dalton Transactions, International Symopsium – Organometallic

Chemistry and Catalysis, IMRE, Singapore, November 5, 2012.

o Invited Speaker, Third International Collaborative and Cooperative Chemistry Symposium

(ICCCS-3), Hangzhou, China, Oct. 31-November 1, 2012.

o Special Lecture, Department of Chemistry, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, S. Korea,

July 24, 2012

o Discussion leader, Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering, New Hampshire,

USA, June, 10-15, 2012.

o Opening Plenary Speaker, Crystal Engineering Symsposium in Honour of Emeritus Prof.

Roger Bishop, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 21, 2011.

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o Keynote speaker, 3rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, New Delhi, India, Oct.

17-20, 2011

o Invited speaker, International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State XX,

Bangalore, India, June 26-30, 2011

o Invited speaker, Scientific Symposium, Bruker Singapore, May 25, 2011

o Guest speaker, Inaugural YJC Crystal Growing Challenge 2011, Yishun Junior College, 2

April, 2011

o Invited talks, Pacifichem 2010, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2010

o Guest Lecture, Graduate School Award Celebrations, Art, Concert Hall, Gyeongsang National

University, Jinju, S. Korea, Oct. 22, 2010.

o Invited talk, New Trend in Functional Molecules, Yonsei University, Seoul, Oct. 16, 2010

o Invited talk, Korean Chemical Society, Inorganic Chapter Meeting, Suncheon National

University, Suncheon, Oct. 8, 2010

o Invited talk, Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan,

Suwon, S. Korea Sept. 24, 2010

o Invited talk, 4th MRS-S Conference on Advance Materials, IMRE, Singapore March 17-19,

2010

o Invited talk, Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore , March 10, 2010

o Invited speaker, NUS-SNU Joint Symposium, NUS, Singapore, March 5, 2010

o Keynote Speaker and chaired a scientific session, 6th Singapore International Chemical

Conference, Singapore, December 15-18, 2009

o Invited Speaker, Korean Battery Society Annual Meeting, Kumoh National Institute of

Technology, Gumi, S. Korea, November 26-27, 2009

o Invited Speaker, The 104th National Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society Meeting,

Daejeon, S. Korea, October 28-30, 2009

o Invited opening talk, International Symposium on Advanced Functional Materials,

Department of Materials Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, S. Korea,

October 16, 2009

o Invited talk, Joint Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association and Chinese

Crystallographic Society, Beijing, China, October 22-25, 2009

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o Distinguished Scholar Invitation Lecture, BK21 Graduate School for Molecular Materials and

Nanochemsitry, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, January 2009

o Opening speaker, 2nd International Symposium on Materials Science, in Babha Atomic

Research Centre, Mumbai, India, Dec. 2-6, 2008

o Plenary speaker, 18th International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers

and IUPAC 4th International Symposium on Novel Materials and their synthesis, Zhejiang,

China, October 15-18, 2008

o Invited speaker, 235th ACS National Meeting in NewOrleans, Lousiana, USA, April 6-10,

2008

o Invited speaker, 12th Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry, IIT-Madras, Chennai, December

6-8, 2007

o Invited speaker, First Asia Science Forum, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, September 10-

11, 2007

o Keynote speaker, 12th Asian Chemical Congress, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, August 23-25, 2007

o Keynote speaker, 1st Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Okazaki Conference

Center, Aichi, Japan, July 29-August 2, 2007

o Invited speaker, The first BK21 International Symposium on Molecular Materials and

Nanochemistry, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, S. Korea, February 23-24, 2007

o Plenary speaker, 2nd Mathematics and Physical Sciences Graduate Congress, NUS, Singapore,

December 12-14, 2006

o Invited speaker, International Conference on Nano-Materials for Electronics, Centre for

Materials for Electronics Technology, Pune, India, November 27-29, 2006

o Invited speaker, 7th Frontier Science Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, November 23-26, 2006

o Plenary speaker, 8th International Symposium on Biotechnology, Metal Complexes and

Catalysis (BMC-VIII), Haikou, China, November 6-9, 2006

o Invited speaker, 9th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC2S-9). Innovations in

Chemical Biology at the Bridge of Eurasia, Antalya, Turkey, September 9-13, 2006

o Keynote Speaker, 37th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry ((ICCC-37), Cape

Town, South Africa, August 13-18, 2006

o Invited speaker, Second MRS-S Conference on Advanced Materials, Materials Research

Society (MRS) of Singapore & Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore,

January 18-20, 2006

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o Invited Speaker, 6th Frontier Science Symposium, Faculty of Science, NUS, Singapore,

November 8-9, 2005

o Plenary speaker and a scientific session chair, 4th National Symposium and Conference on

Solid State Chemistry and Allied Areas, Goa University, Goa, India, December, 1-3 2005

o Invited speaker, MRS-S Conference on Advanced Materials, Materials Research Society

(MRS) of Singapore & Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, August 6,

2004

o Invited speaker, 6th Asian Crystallography Meeting (AsCA04), Hong Kong University of

Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China, June 27-30, 2004

o Invited speakers, First Chemistry - IMRE Joint Symposium 2002, September 10, 2002

o Invited speaker and chaired a scientific session, National Conference & Symposium on Solid

State Chemistry and Allied Areas (NCSCA 2001), IIT Kanpur, India, December 6-8, 2001

o Speaker and chaired a scientific session, Singapore International Chemical Conference II -

Frontiers in Chemical Design and Synthesis, Singapore, December 18-20, 2001

o Invited speaker, Microsymposium, Crystal Engineering at the IV Meeting of Asian

Crystallographic Association, IISc, Bangalore, India 18-21 November 2001

o Invited speaker, 30th Annual Session of the Institute of Chemistry, represented Singapore

National Institute of Chemistry and gave an invited talk, Columbo, Sri Lanka, June 20-21,

2001

o Other Talks: Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart, Germany (2018), Universität Würzburg,

Germany (2018), University of Reading Malaysia (2017), McGill University, Canada (2016),

York University, Canada (2016), University of Toronto, Canada (2016), Wilfred Laurier

University, Waterloo, Canada (2016), University of British Columbia, Canada (2015), Simon

Fraser University, Canada (2015), University of Alberta, Canada (2015), University of Calgary

(2015), University of Lethbridge, Canada (2015), Pune University (2014), NISER-

Bhubaneswar (2014), IIT-Bhubaneswar (2014), Unversity of Hyderabad (2014), IIT-Bombay,

India (2013), IIT-Indore (2013, IISER-Bhopal (2013), IIT-Kharagpur, India (2013), Kolyani

University, India (2013), Jadavpur University, India (2013), IISER-Kolkata, India (2013), IIT-

Delhi, India (2012), University of Calicut, India (2011), Cochin University of Science &

Technology, India (2011), University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India (2011); SPMS, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore, March, 2010; Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, S.

Korea September, 2009; Chonbuk National University, Geonju, S. Korea, September, 2009;

Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, S. Korea, September, 2009; Chonnam

University, Gwangju, S. Korea, September, 2009; Korea University, Seoul, S. Korea,

November, 2009; Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore,

April, 2009; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, April, 2009, University of South Florida,

January, 2009; IIT-Delhi, February, 2008; University of Western Ontario, June, 2008;

University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, June, 2007; Northern Illinois University, USA,

June, 2005; University of Göttingen, Germany, June, 2002; University of Manchester, UK,

December, 2002; University of Hyderabad, University of Madras, IITs at Chennai and Delhi in

November and December 2001; The Royal Society of Chemistry, London (North India

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Section), University of Delhi, Delhi, India, December 11, 2001; The University of Western

Ontario, London, Canada, August 11, 2000.

External Reviewer:

o Panel Member, Clusters of Excellence grant proposal, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

(DFG, German Research Foundation), 2018

o Invited to nominate a candidate for various medals of Chemical Institute of Canada, 2016-

o Invited to nominate a candidate for Outstanding Emerging Researchers, McGill University,

2016

o Grant proposal for American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, USA, 2015

o External reviewer for promotion and tenure at MacGill University, 2015

o Reviewer of a textbook proposal on Gas Separation and Storage in MOFs for CRC Press,

2015

o Reviewer of candidates for TIFR, Hyderabad, 2012-13

o Reviewer of a candidate for Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Researches (IVIC), Caraca,

Venezuala, 2012, 2018

o Grant proposal for National Research Foundation of Korea, S. Korea, 2011

o Reviewer of a candidate for promotion to Professorship, Universiti Brunei Darusslam, 2011

o Grant proposal for King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2013, 2015

o Grant proposal for National Scientific & Engineering Research Council, Canada, 2010

o Grant proposal for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2009

o Grant proposal for American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, USA, 2008, 2015

o Grant proposal for Israel Science Foundation (ISF), 2008

o Grant proposal for King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2007, 2008,

2009

o Grant proposals for Czech Science Foundation, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015

o Expert reviewer of South African Research Chairs Initiatives (SARCI) funded by the National

Research Foundation, South Africa, 2015 and 2006

o Reviewer of a candidate for TWAS-2008 prize, Third World Academy of Science, 2008

o Reviewer of a candidate for promotion of a staff member, Indian Institute of Science, 2008

o Reviewer of a candidate for Bhatnagar Prize, the most prestigious award in science, India,

2008

o Reviewer for the renewal of Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2009

o Reviewer of a candidate for National Research Foundation, South Africa, 2009

o Reviwer of a candidate for promotion at University of Missouri, Columbia, 2010, 2011

o Expert reviewer of South African Research Chairs Initiatives (SARCI) funded by the National

Research Foundation, South Africa, 2011.

Member of Board of Examiners of External MSc and PhD Thesis: Bharatiar University (PhD

-1999, 2001, 2002 & 2006), Bharathidasan University (PhD – 2002, 2006), Banaras Hindu

University (PhD - 2002), Madras University (PhD - 2004), IIT Bombay (PhD - 2004), Adelaide

University (MSc - 2001), the University of Melbourne (MSc – 2005), University of Hyderabad

(PhD – 2005), IIT Kanpur (PhD – 2006, 2008), IIT Madras (PhD – 2007), the Department of

Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine (MSc - 2003), NUS, Department of Chemical &

Biomolecular Engineering, NUS (PhD – 2008), National Institute of Education, NTU, Singapore

(PhD - 2007), University of New South Wales, Australia (PhD - 2007), University of New South

Wales, Australia (PhD - 2007), University of New South Wales (PhD – 2010, 2011 & 2013), IIT

Kanpur (PhD - 2010), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (PhD - 2012); IIT Kharagpur (PhD

- 2012), IIT-Kanpur – (PhD 2013 & 2014), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (PhD,

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2015); IIT-Kharagpur (PhD – 2015); University of Malaya, KL (PhD - 2015); IIT-Kanpur (PhD –

2016).

Reviewer for International Journals: Receiving more than 100 invitations annually from

various journals like Science, Nature, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Angewandte

Chemie, IUCrJ, Chemistry – A European Journal, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry,

Journal of Chemical Education, Journal of American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry,

Chemistry of Materials, Crystal Growth & Design, Langmuir, Chemical Communications, Dalton

Transactions, New Journal of Chemistry, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Solid State

Chemistry, Inorganica Chimica Acta, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Journal of Molecular

structure, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Polyhedron, Monatshefte fur Chemie, Solid State

Sciences, Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic and Nano-Metal Chemistry,

Bioinorganic Chemistry & Applications, Coordination Chemical Reviews, Journal of Applied

Organometallic Chemistry, Journal of Inorganic & Organometallic Polymers & Materials, Austr.

J. Chemistry, Acta Crystallographica Sections C & E, Journal of Chemical Crystallography,

International J. of Environ. & Pollution, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry – A Asian

Journal, Journal of Organic Chemistry and Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie.

SERVICE

Administrative Responsibilities and Services to NUS

o Director, Chemical, Molecular and Materials Analysis Center, 2011- 2015

o Chair, Administrave & Technical Staff Committee, Department of Chemistry, NUS, 2011-

2015

o Member, Management Council, Department of Chemistry, NUS, 2009-

o Member, Search Committee, 2013-2015

o Chair (from 2017) and Member, Tenure & Promotion, 2011-,

o Member, Graduate Committee, 1997-2015

o Member, Safety, Security & Health, Department of Chemistry, NUS, 2012-2013

o Deputy Chair, Search Committee, 2010-2012

o Chief Judge, Chem. Comm. Challenge Final (English), 2011

o Chair of several Department Evaluation Committee for the promotion to full professorship

o Deputy Chair, Department Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2010-2012

o Assistant Dean (Research and Graduate Programs, Space & Infrastructure), Faculty of

Science, 2007-2010

o Chairman, Facutly Space and Evaluation Committee 2008-2010

o A leading member of the team to draft initial plan for the New Wet Science Building, Faculty

of Science, 2009

o Member, Faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee (Senior), 2009-2010

o Manager, X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory 1997-2005. Managing the facility with a Research

Technologist and a part-time X-ray crystallographer. Providing my service and expertise to

more than 16 staff members of the Chemistry Department and many academic institutions

outside Singapore

o Chairman, Graduate Committee, 2003- 2005

o Coordinator of the Road show to promote the awareness of the Graduate Research Program of

the Faculty of Science in Indian Universities in Kolkata and Chennai, Feb. 2006

o Member, Faculty Research Committee, 2005-2006

o Advisor, Americas Sections, Undergraduates Exchange Program, International Relations

Office, NUS, 2005-2007

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o Faculty of Science Graduate/Honors Orientation Training talks, 2006, 2007

o Open House, Faculty of Science, 2007 & 2008

o Member, Crisis-Management Committee, Faculty of Science, 2005-2006

o Search Committee, Department of Chemistry 2008-09

o Department Staff Evaluation Committee, 2008-09

o Member, Graduate Committee, from 1997 - 2011

o Member, the Executive Committee for Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Science,

from 2003 - 2005

o Co-chair Safety and Space Committees, 2005

o Chairman, PhD Oral Examination Committee, 2003-2005 chaired more than 50 oral exams

o A member of the Safety, Security & Health Committee. From 2001

o Deputy Chairman, Teaching Assistantship & Support, 2001 - 2005

o Promoting NUS-Chemistry: Talks on "Opportunities for Graduate Studies in Chemistry at

NUS" in Colombo, Sri Lanka (June 21, 2001) and several leading universities in India

including Bangalore University, University of Hyderabad, University of Madras, Anna

University, Delhi University, Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai, Kanpur and New

Delhi in November and December 2001, to advertise NUS Chemistry department and to

attract the best students in India and Sri Lanka. Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli,

India, Dec. 2007; Delhi University, IIT – Delhi & Kharagpur, Feb. 2008; IIT-Delhi, India

(2012), IIT-Kharagpur, India (2013), Kolyani University, India (2013), Jadavpur University,

India (2013), IISER-Kolkata, India (2013), IIT-Bombay, India (2013), NISER-Bhubaneswar

(2014), IIT-Bhubaneswar (2014), Unversity of Hyderabad (2014)

o Interviewed graduate students for the Faculty Graduate Program, in India, August 1998, 2007-

2009, 2010, 2011

o Academic Mentor, Faculty of Science 1997 - 2005

Teaching at NUS

Formal Lectures

o CM2111 – Inorganic Chemistry – Class size of 160. From 2017

o CM5212 – Crystal Engineering – Class size of 15-40 students. Started teaching from 2014.

Created this module

o FMSC1207C – Gemstones, Minerals and Rocks – Freshmen Seminar, Faculty of Science.

Max. Class size of 15 students. From 2012. Created this module

o CM5241 – Modern Analytical Techniques (Elective module with 25-50 graduate students) -

with Professors Sam Li and Lee Hian Kee, 1997 and 1998.

o CM5243 – X-Ray Crystallography – A Practical Approach (Elective module with 10-30

graduate students). Class strength, 30-60 students. The course was developed and taught every

year from 1999 until 2014. Created this module

o CM4214 – Structural Methods in Inorganic Chemistry (Elective module with 25-50 graduate

students). With Professors Leung Pak Hing and Mok Kum Fun (1997 & 1998). Class size, 25-

35 students. This includes tutorial sessions. Taught full module every year from 1999 to 2003

and again from 2005.

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o CM2111 – Co-teaching Inorganic Chemistry (Essential Module with ~200 undergraduate

students). 1997-1999, 2006, 2016 and 2016-. Taught the full module in the special term 2000.

This includes tutorial sessions containing a group of 10-12 students. Class strength, 180-200

students.

o CM1111 – Basic Inorganic Chemistry (Essential Module with ~ 425 undergraduate students).

2003 & 2004.

Tutorials

o CM1101 Principles of Modern Chemistry (1998 &1999) – A class of about 10 students per

tutorial group.

o CM1111 Basic Inorganic Chemistry (1999 & 2000) – A class of about 10 students per group.

Laboratory Courses

o CM2192 Experimental Physical Chemistry (1997 & 1998). Class size 60.

o CM2191 Experiments in Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (1999). Class size 60.

o CM2111 Inorganic Chemistry Practicals (2001). Class size 60.

o CM2101 Principles of Spectroscopy Practicals (2001). Class size 60.

o CM3291 Advanced Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Experiments, 1998, from 2000 - 2012.

Class size 60.

o CM1111 Basic Inorganic Chemistry Practicals, 2003. Class size 60.

o CM1502 Physical Chemistry for Engineering, 2013-2014. Class size 60

o CM3291 Special Experiments in Inorganic Chemistry, 2013-2014, Class size of 30

Educational Workshop Conducted:

o Two-day Short Course in Small Molecule X-ray Crystallography at the Institute of Chemical

and Engineering Sciences, Jurong Island, Singapore May 10-11, 2005.

o Special Program in Science: Talk on ‘Symmetry in molecules and crystals’ to a group of about

50 students on March 8, 2005.

o Organized a five-day workshop and training course on the crystallographic software program

SHELXTL by Dr. Ludger Haming, Bruker AXS, Germany, October 16-20, 2000. More than

20 graduate students of the department were given hands-on tutorials in the X-Ray diffraction

laboratory.

o Undergraduate Scientific Essay Writing Projects: Under the Science Foundation Module SFM

1100 twelve different projects were guided from 1997 to 2002 involving about 100 first year

students.

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